Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
21 Dec
Breakfast: Yogurt and Fruit
Ingredients
Instructions: Prepare bacon or soy patties, following package instructions. Stir fruit and nuts into yogurt, and serve with bacon or links on the side.
Lunch: Tuna Salad
Ingredients
Instructions: Mix tuna with celery and stir in dressing. Prepare a bed of the lettuce, and top with tuna mixture. Mix orange sections with berries and serve for dessert.
Dinner: Foiled Flounder with Green Beans
Ingredients
Instructions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Tear off an 18-inch-by-12-inch piece of foil. Spray the center lightly with vegetable spray, and place fish in the center of the foil. Top with onion and sprinkle with cheese, pepper, and lemon juice. Fold foil loosely over fish, leaving ample space for air. Carefully turn up and seal the ends and the middle so that juices won’t leak out. Bake in the preheated oven 18 minutes. Meanwhile, steam the green beans: in a large pot fitted with a steaming basket, bring 1 inch water to boil. Add beans to the basket and steam until crisp-tender, 10 minutes. Drain, place in serving bowl, and fold almonds. When fish is done, carefully open foil to prevent steam burns, and remove to a plate. Serve with green beans. Serve pineapple for dessert.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
13 Dec
Breakfast: Fruit Salad
Instructions: Place cottage cheese in a bowl. Fold in pineapple, oranges, and nuts.
Lunch: Chef’s Salad
1 cup green-leaf lettuce (substitute lettuce of your choice), washed, dried, and torn into large pieces
Instructions: Toss lettuce with chickpeas, mushrooms, and celery. Dress, toss, and add meat and cheese. Serve apple for dessert.
*Zone oil-and-vinegar dressing for this meal contains 1 1/3 teaspoons olive oil and 2 teaspoons vinegar. Extra vinegar may be added to taste.
Dinner: Ginger Chicken
1 1/3 teaspoons olive oil
Instructions: In a wok or large nonstick pan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken and sauté, turning frequently, until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Add broccoli, snow peas, onion, ginger, and ¼ cup water. Continue cooking, stirring often, until the chicken is done, water is reduced to a glaze, and vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. If the pan dries out during cooking, add water in tablespoon increments to keep moist. Serve grapes for dessert.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
04 Dec
Tuesday
Bacony Chicken Thighs---------------------
Ingredients:
Marinade Ingredients:
3 each garlic cloves, minced
3 tsp kosher or sea salt
2 T paprika (mild Hungarian preferred)
1 tsp dried oregano (or 1 T fresh)
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp fresh cracked black pepper
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup red wine of choice (cabernet sauvignon is preferred)
juice of 1 lemon
Basic Ingredients:
1 each 1-2 pound lean flank steak
2 each small eggplants (Japanese eggplant)2 each zucchini
4 each portabella mushrooms
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
2 cups low fat or nonfat plain yogurt (strained)
2 T chopped fresh dill (or 2 tsp dried dill)
1/2 cup cucumber, chopped
1 T lemon
1 each garlic clove, minced
1/4 cup chopped fresh mint
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 each cantaloupe
Directions:
· Make basic marinade by combining all ingredients.
· Take flank steak and marinade in 3/4 cup of marinade for 2-4 hours (reserve 1/4 cup for veggies).
· Combine yogurt, cucumber, dill, lemon, garlic, mint and onion in a bowl. Chill.
· Slice of cantaloupe and set aside or chill.
· After marinating steak... preheat grill, broiler or grill pan.
· Wash all vegetables well. Cut zucchini into grill-able slices by slicing lengthwise.
· Cut baby eggplants in half lengthwise. Leave portabellas whole.
· Add balsamic vinegar to remaining quarter cup of marinade.
· Place steak on grill (6 minutes per side for med rare), turning 1/4 turn at 3 and 9 minutes for good crosshatch grill marks.
· Take steak off grill and let sit for 8-12 minutes before slicing to allow juices to redistribute.
· Brush veggies with marinade and place on grill. Grill until firm but tender and they have nice grill marks.
· Slice meat thinly against grain.
· Serve 3 ounces of meat with 1/4 quarter of the grilled veggies, 1/2 cup of the yogurt sauce (dip for meat and veggies), and 1/2 cantaloupe.
Monday, November 30, 2009
some eats menu 2
Santa Fe Chops with Firecracker Salsa-------------------------------------
Tuesday Key Lime Chicken Breasts------------------------
Wednesday Casual Joe ----------
From Dana
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Turkey day done paleo
From: http://www.marthastewart.com/Nav/television_prog.html
Today, Martha stuffs a free-range organic turkey from upstate New York witha fruit-and-nut stuffing that contains neither bread nor rice, theconventional foundations for stuffing. You will need to soak the driedfruit overnight in bourbon (named for Bourbon County, Kentucky), which,aside from the whole raw cranberries in this recipe, is perhaps the mostAmerican of its ingredients.If the nuts are salted, place them in a strainer, run cold water over them,and then dry on paper towels. After you've stuffed the turkey, insert anapple into the cavity to seal it. Sew the turkey with a trussing needle andstring. Then truss the turkey with string and poultry lacers—stainless-steel skewers used to secure the stuffing in the neck end of thecavity.Always take care to stuff the bird just before cooking. To ensure that thestuffing cooks evenly, don't overstuff the bird. Never mix raw meat orvegetables into a stuffing, and don't leave either stuffing or turkeysitting out for more than two hours.
FRUIT-AND-NUT STUFFING
Makes about 10 cups
18 whole pitted prunes
1/2 cup dried currants
1 cup dark raisins
24 dried apricot halves
1/4 cup orange juice
3 tart cooking apples, unpeeled, cored, chopped
3 large onions, diced
2 celery stalks, diced
6 tablespoons olive oil
2/3 cup whole macadamia nuts, unsalted
2/3 cup whole brazil nuts
1 cup walnut pieces
2 cups whole raw cranberries
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon dried chervil leaves
1 teaspoon finely minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 teaspoons coarse sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1. Put the prunes, currants, raisins, and apricot halves in a bowl, and pour the orange juice over the fruit. Cover bowl, and soak overnight.
2. Combine the apples, onions, and celery in a large skillet along with four T olive oil. Cook the mixture over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until the onions are soft and the celery is tender, about 10minutes.
3. Heat 2 teaspoons olive oil in a skillet and add the nuts. Toast them,stirring constantly, until golden.
4. Transfer the sautéed onion mixture to a large mixing bowl. Add the macerated fruit, the toasted nuts, and all remaining ingredients. Gently mix the stuffing with 2 large spoons or your hands until evenly blended.Set the stuffing aside while you prepare the turkey for roasting.
5. After the turkey has been stuffed, any remaining stuffing can be cookedseparately. Place stuffing in an oiled baking dish, cover and bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes until heated through.
Cranberry Sauce with Dried Apricots
From: elanaspantry.com
1 pound fresh cranberries
1 ½ cups water
½ cup dried apricots, cut into quarters
¼ cup currants2 tablespoons agave nectar
¼ teaspoon ginger zest
1 teaspoon orange zest
1. Pick through the cranberries, discarding the soft and rotten ones, wash the rest
2. Place cranberries and water in pot, bring to a boil and then turn down to a simmer for 10 minutes
3. Add the apricots and currants, simmer for five minutes
4. Add agave, orange and ginger zest and simmer five minutes
As far as vegetables are concerned, be sure to follow the Paleo Diet Guidelines. This means no Corn, Beans, Legumes.
Catherine Ryan's Pie Crust --------------------------
1 cup pitted dates
2 cups pecans, pistachios & almonds mixture
1 cup almonds2 TBS orange juice
Grind the one cup of almonds (other nuts are too oily) in clean, dry foodprocessor until fairly fine power. Stop grinding way before nuts start toturn buttery. Set Aside.
Put remaining two cups of three-nut mixture intofood processor. Grind until fine enough that they just barley begin to getsome nut-butter sticking on the sides of the machine.
Add dates and mix avery long time. Mix will eventually start to ball up as the oils start topull out of the ground nuts. Finally, with machine still running, add orange juice.
The clumps of mixture will suddenly ball up in one solid,rich mass.
Put the set aside ground almond powder into strainer/sifter andshake powder over wax paper. Put entire ball of nut/date mixture in center.Press down.
Sprinkle more nut powder over top. Put another sheet of waxpaper on top. Roll out with rolling pin into size big enough to fit piepan. Pull off wax paper from top side of crust. Sprinkle almond powder inpie tin. Turn date/nut crust over into pan. Pull off last sheet of waxpaper. Gently press into pie pan, trimming off excess.
Dust the rim of thepie crust with remaining almond powder.
Fill with raw pie mixture:apple-raspberry, pumpkin, banana-carob creme, California lime, etc. Acoffe/nut grinder can be used to gind nuts instead, then all other materialcan be run though Champion juicer for similar results if a food processorisn't available; but filling will not be as smooth.
Try adding raw carobearlier on in the processing, for variety. Also, you can put spoon-sizedballs of mixture into freezer for great candy.From www.rawtimes.com
Monday, November 23, 2009
Breakfast for a week 1
4 slices of Prosciutto
4 slices of Trader Joe's French Loaf Bread
2 slices extra sharp cheddar cheese
2 eggs (with Omega 3s)
439 calories. Nutritional rating is a 1.9. This food is a good source of Protein and Selenium.
Hold the prosciutto and add arugula for Keala's...
Vegetarian Spicy Fried Egg, Cheddar and Arugula Sandwich
Joseph's 60 calorie flaxseed and oat pita bread
1/2 cup arugula
1 slice of cheddar cheese
1 tablespoon hot sauce
1 egg
247 calories. Nutritional rating of a 2.4 (out of 5). This food is a good source of Protein and Selenium. 16% car, 52% fat 32% protein
Mix the eggs and bread together for Julia's
Agave, Cinnamon Whole Wheat French Toast
1 Slice Trader Joe's French Loaf Bread
2 tablespoons agave
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 Eggs
395 calories for 1 slice. This food is low in Sodium. It is also a very good source of Manganese. A large portion of calories comes from sugar.
Hold the yokes, prosciutto, cheese and bread and add vegetables for my
(Paleo/ South Beach phase 1)
3 egg whites
1/4 green pepper
1/4 cup red pepper
1/8 cup onion
2 tablespoons salsa
handful of arugula
Morning drink... Juice Cucumber, Celery, Lemon, Ginger
1.2 cucumber
3 celery stalks
1 large lemon wedge
1 tablespoon raw ginger root
156 calories . Nutritional rating 4.9 (out of 5) This food is very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin B6, Magnesium and Manganese, and a very good source of Protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Riboflavin, Folate, Potassium and Selenium. This breakfast is strongly anti-inflammatory and has an extremely low glycemic index!
Be sure to click on each one and see full nutritional information
Posted by Michaela Carlin from edible evolution: great resource check it here http://edibleevolution.blogspot.com/search/label/Paleo/Zone%20Recipes
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Meals for you week 1
Just Plain Chili----------------
Tuesday:
Chicken Cacciatora------------------
Wednesday:
Leftovers
Thursday:
Friday:
leftovers
Saturday:
Sunday: